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The Tyne and Wear Metro has revealed a number of special ticket options to help people to get out and about to see the Great North Snowdog Trail.
Limited edition Snowdog Pop Pay As You Go cards, which include a £10 balance, are available to buy online now, click here for Nexus online store.
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The Metro system is to play a key part in Tyne and Wear’s biggest ever mass participation public art event – Great North Snowdogs.
The colourful Snowdog trail will see 61 individually designed Snowdog sculptures displayed in local parks and open spaces - and almost all are in easy reach of a Metro...

Nexus, the public body which owns and manages the Tyne and Wear Metro, is investing £3m in new tracks for the iconic Metro tunnels that run deep beneath the streets of Newcastle city centre.
Engineers are replacing a two kilometre stretch of track between Jesmond Metro station and the QEII Metro...

The Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) is required by law to participate in the National Fraud Initiative’s data matching exercise to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud.
This includes supplying data about concessionary travel pass holders to the Cabinet Office.
If you have any...

Extra Metro services will be in operation for Sunday’s Great North Run - and runners and spectators are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys and to buy tickets in advance.
There will be additional Metro services will be running until around 7pm, when the timetable returns to normal...

An air vent for the Tyne and Wear Metro’s tunnels beneath Newcastle has been listed by Historic England as an important piece of post-war public art.
Parson’s Polygon is a unique terracotta obelisk designed by artist David Hamilton to stand in one of Newcastle city centre’s busiest streets.
The 3.5...

The Shields Ferry service is gearing up for the Great North Run, its busiest day of the year, where it expects to carry 10,000 passengers over the day.
Both ferries will be operating on the day of the Great North Run, Sunday 11 September, in order to clear the huge volume of runners and spectators...

A group of stroke survivors from South Tyneside have unveiled a project to help other people like them to get around and explore the area as part of their rehabilitation programme.
The project has involved the creation of a special walking route and map, starting from Jarrow Metro station. The easy...

Shields Ferry passengers will be entertained by buskers on their Tyne crossings this Bank Holiday weekend.
A busker’s pitch will be erected on board the ferry on Saturday August 27, 12pm-6pm, and a host of musicians will be giving live performances.
The Crossing the Tyne Festival has been organised...

Metro customers are being encouraged to use their daily commute as inspiration for a new short story competition.
Tyne and Wear Metro has teamed up with New Writing North to challenge writers, both aspiring and established, to pen a 250-word short story.
The story should be based around the theme ‘...